Category Review

★★★½☆, Review, Star Rating, Theatre

REVIEW: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO WIDOWHOOD

Reading Time: 2 minutesA Beginner’s Guide to Widowhood, originally created by Omar Khan and written by Rae Mainwaring, is on at The Lion & Unicorn through 5 September.

Jessica Steans-Gail
September 3, 2026

★★★☆☆, Review, Star Rating, Theatre

REVIEW: Backstage

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBackstage takes an intriguing idea and gradually builds an unsettling world around it. After being invited backstage following a cabaret performance on a luxury cruise ship, Lena finds herself unable to make her way back to the passenger area.

Maria Mădălina Ifrim
September 2, 2026

★★★★½, Comedy, Comedy, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Festivals, Review, Star Rating, Theatre

REVIEW: Duck @ Gilded Balloon

Reading Time: 2 minutesSam Morrison brings a new hour of stand up to the Fringe, that takes a look at grief, sexuality, religion and so much more, all while relating that to several members of the animal kingdom. DUCK explores these issues with a solid scientific base, while providing hilarious insights into Morrison's own life experiences.

dougalthomson94
September 2, 2026

★★★★☆, Comedy, Comedy, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Festivals, Review, Star Rating, Theatre

REVIEW: Biscuit Barrel: The 69 Sketch Show @ GildedBalloon

Reading Time: 2 minutesBiscuit Barrel bring a high energy hour of sketches to the Fringe, with their signature challenge of showcasing sixty-nine sketches in one hour.

dougalthomson94
September 2, 2026
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★★★★½, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Festivals, Review, Star Rating, Theatre

REVIEW: Lost in Translation @ Gilded Balloon

Reading Time: 2 minutesLost in Translation returns to the Fringe with a roster of badly translated scripts, some old and some new. The premise is simple: cut a famous film script to an hour, and then push it through various language translator sites until it comes back completely changed.

dougalthomson94
September 1, 2026

★★★★★, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Festivals, Review, Star Rating

REVIEW: Showstopper The Improvised Musical @ Pleasance

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe premise is simple, a producer asks the audience to come up with an idea for a brand new musical. Said musical is then improvised before our very eyes. The show we saw was a hilarious and maddeningly new musical, Emergency Exit!, all about the world of Ryanair.

dougalthomson94
September 1, 2026

★★★☆☆, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Festivals, Review, Star Rating

REVIEW: FUCCBOIS: LIVE IN CONCERT @ Assembly

Reading Time: 2 minutesFUCCBOIS: LIVE IN CONCERT is Bridie Connell’s new satire concert musical, centred on the fictional boy band FUCCBOIS as they perform the final concert of their farewell tour.

Matin Cheung
September 1, 2026

★★★½☆, Comedy, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Festivals, Review, Star Rating

REVIEW: John Achkar @ Just The Spare Room

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe name of John Achkar’s show, listed in full on the Fringe website, is a full sentence, and a really long one: John Achkar: His country is collapsing. He's having a baby. So obviously, this is the right year for a Lebanese comedian you've never heard of to try English stand-up for the first time.